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I don't understand why the State of Arkansas plans to go forward with erecting a Ten Commandments monument on its Capitol grounds. The State will be sued and lose -- as did the State of Oklahoma, Bloomfield, N.M. and others. (In an anomaly 5-4 decision, Texas won in 2005 because its 10C monument had been at its Capitol for 40 years. that's not the case in Arkansas. Also, on the same June 2005 day, McCreary County, KY lost a 10C Supreme Court decision.) Government displays of religious symbols violate the First Amendment (applicable to the states via the 14th Amendment). Government may not favor one religion over another religion or religion over nonbelief. The U.S. Constitution prohibits federal, state and local governments from promoting God belief or religious doctrine. Robert V. Ritter, Founder, Jefferson Madison Center for Religious Liberty.

I am a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar, have been in the courtroom a number of times and have taken many pictures and been given pictures of the Court. The Ten Commandments are NOT displayed in any public part of the courthouse -- inside or outside. There is a depiction of Moses (and other 17 other lawgivers) on the South and North friezes inside the courtroom. On the tablets Moses is holding, the Hebrew translated into English reads: "Thou shall murder," "Thou shall steal" and "Thou shall commit adultery." Hardly the Ten Commandments. Other alleged showings of the Ten Commandments are merely blank tablets or Roman numerals. Bottom line -- no textual version of the Ten Commandments are publicly displayed at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Satanic Temple is going to face an uphill battle. Under the Supreme Court's Pleasant Grove City v. Summum decision, Arkansas doesn't have to accept the Temple's monument even if it displays the Eagles look-a-like Ten Commandments monument because a second religious monument create religious neutrality because there are a lot more religions and nonbelief. Altho Arkansas may temporarily avert a law suit if it accepts the Temple's monument, in the long run that's not the case because the state will always be susceptible to a claim of an Establishment Clause violation once it displays a religious monument.

The Fraternal Order of Eagles Ten Commandments monuments and their look-a-likes, e.g. Oklahoma City and Little Rock monuments -- have but one purpose and that is to display one version of the Ten Commandments on public property. That purpose violates the Supreme Court's Lemon test which is used to analyze Establishment Clause cases. So the question is not whether 10C monuments on public property violate the U.S. Constitution -- they do -- but whether the judges and justices who hear these cases will be faithful to the Constitution. That is the real problem facing plaintiffs. Visit my website at EaglesMonuments.com for pics of 10C monuments in Arkansas and other states.

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